The former measured all actions by the unalterable rule of right, and the eternal fitness of things ; the latter decided all matters by authority ; but in doing this, he always used the scriptures and their commentators, as the lawyer doth his Coke upon... The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - Página 115por Henry Fielding - 1820 - 299 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 550 páginas
...parodied the phrase in the formula by which Square measured "true honour and true virtue"; to wit, by "the unalterable Rule of Right and the eternal Fitness of Things." Though Chubb, in contrast with Square, was a man of blameless character, the two philosophers were... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 502 páginas
...parodied the phrase in the formula by which Square measured "true honour and true virtue"; to wit, by "the unalterable Rule of Right and the eternal Fitness of Things." Though Chubb, in contrast with Square, was a man of blameless character, the two philosophers were... | |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1918 - 496 páginas
...parodied the phrase in the formula by which Square measured "true honour and true virtue"; to wit, by "the unalterable Rule of Right and the eternal Fitness of Things." Though Chubb, in contrast with Square, was a man of blameless character, the two philosophers were... | |
| Aurélien Digeon - 1925 - 282 páginas
...goodness. The favourite phrase of the former was the natural beauty of virtue, that of the latter was the divine power of grace. The former measured all actions...rule of right, and the eternal fitness of things, etc." Ill, 3. To stress the continuity of Fielding's thought we should note that Mr Wilson in Joseph... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1983 - 1028 páginas
...natural, and from NATURE alone?" ' (ibid., ii. 414-15). On the other hand, Square's method of measuring 'all Actions by the unalterable Rule of Right and the eternal Fitness of Things' derives from the 'intellectualists', who believed that Aristotle. Upon which great Models he had principally... | |
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